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M., for the purpose of supplying the Scnpay Henaxp along the line of the Hudson River, New York Central and Lake Shore and Michigan Southern roads. Newsdealers and others are notified to send in their orders to the Henan office as early as possible, pau From our reports this morning the probabilities are that the weather to-day will be cooler and partly cloudy, with possibly rain areas on the coast. NEW YORK HERALD , THURSDAY, JULY 8, 1875—TRIPLE SHERT ‘The Noxt President. Though nothing is so hazardous ns the voca- tion of a political prophet, yet nothing is #0 se- ductive as the tendency to speculate on Presi- dential probabilities or possibilities during the year which precedes a Presidential elec- tion, Twelve months hence the range of con- jecture will have been narrowed to the cum- parative prospects of the two parties which will then be in the field with the‘r candidates and their platforms. It will then be a simple question as to which of two known candidates is more likely to win. But at present the in- | teresting point of speculation relates to the chances of some three or four men on each | side tor the nomination. Among the public men supposed to cherish Presidential aspirations Vice President Wil- | sop has evinced a truer insight than avy other stat-sman on the republican side. No other public man has so strongly seized or so fully comprehends the poweriul influence of the | centennial year on the canvass, No man so well understands the American tendency to gush, and as American gush is always ex- travagant it will not confine itself within bounds next year, when there will be so much justification. We are the most impulsive people in the world; we are never moderate on festive occasions, The absurd fuss we made over Dickens on the occasion of his first | visit, the equally extravagant fuss we made over the visit of Kossuth, and our effusive demonstrations on the visit of the Prince ot Wales are conspicuous instances of the tendencies of the popular heart on occasions which justify an outpouring. On all such occasious the stream overflows its channel like a spring flood and _ inundates the bordering regions. Mr. Wilson, who understands the American people from sym- pathy, 18 quicksto perceive how the natural tendency to gush and extravagance will color our politics next year. It is already apparent to him, as it will soon be to everybody, that the stock ideas of the republican party will be at ao discount im the great centennial year. The effusive patriotism of 1876 is certain to manifest itself in a tone of magnan- imous generosity to the South, and as the | republican party has achieved its former victories by playing upon sectional hostilities, it is too evident that its customary weapons will be blunted in the centennial year. Mr. Wilson has evinced prompt foresight and sagacity in anticipating the potent influence of this feeling in the Presidential canvass. This generous sentiment would naturally operate to the advantage of the democratic party, and Mr. Wilson has exhibited the tact of an experienced politician in trying to turn it to republican account. If he should be the republican candidate the magnanimous spirit of the centennial year could not be made an element of democratic success. But, in spite of this dexterous bid, Mr. Wilson will not be the republican candidate. He is cordially hated by the adwinistration, and Grant's army of office-holders will prevent’ the nomination of a man whose implied cen- sures of their chiet have brought him into dis- favor. The active exertion of the federal paironage is so important to the republican party that its National Convention will. not nominate a candidate whom President Grant would rather see defeated than elected. Mr. Wilson’s signl rebuke of the President in his recent letter extinguished his chances. When he said that the Presidency is an honor Persons gong out of town for the summer can have the daily and Sunday Henanp mailed them, free of postage, for $1 per month. Watt =Sreeer Yzsterpar.—Stocks were strong and prices suggestive of further strength. Gold declined to 116}. Foreign exchange was steady, and money easy on call. Tue Lone Braycn Races yesterday were an interesting midsummer event. ‘Tax Rowers are making ready at Saratoga. We print an interesting narrative of their proceedings in another column. Tr Smems that the Whiskey Ring leaders in St. Louis have resolved to fight the govern- ment. There has been a suspicious silence about this whiskey business since the recent noisy exposures. Have our Treasury officials grown faint and weary—or what? Tue Commrrrez appointed by the Assem- bly to inquire into the increase of crime in New York are now in session. The report of their investigations is interesting and pain- fal. If the committee press their inquiries there will be some extraordinary revelations, Mn. Bercuen has gone upon the witness stand in the Loader and Price case, and upon his evidence, as well as the confession of Price, they have been committed to prison to newer for perjury. If Mr. Beecher is con- sistent he will not stop with Loader and Price. Let us have a real trial for perjury. ‘Tue Insanrry of Robert Dale Owen, will be regretted by all who knew this amiable, accom- plished and high-minded gentleman. He is now an old man—beyond seventy. At this period of life insanity may be said to mean death. This calamity will explain many of Mr. Owen's recent vagaries on Spiritualism. Mz. Bracn, when addressing the Beecher jary, informed the Court that he knew that the jury had been approached, and Mr. Ful- lerton intimated he bad some affidavits on the subject he would present to the Court. Now, where are these affidavits, and why should Messrs. Beach and Fullerton permit a charge go serious to fall to the ground? Grvz Us Tem Names! —Frederick Dong. lags, in a recent speecn, referred to the failure ot the Freedman’s Savings Bank in Washing. ton. ‘We put our millions there,” he said, “but where are theynow? The men who went into the bank a few years ago poor men are now domiciled in beautiful houses and drive their fine turnouts. It makes me feel badly to think how we have been robbed.’ We ehould think it would! It is a feeling in which the country will share. The failure of the Freedman’s Savings Bank was most dis- graceful in every way. It was a deliberate, cold-blooded, shameful robbery of a de- pendent, poor and struggling race—a robbery under the guise of morality and religion. Give us the names of these robbers! Mr. Douglass must know them, becanse he speaks against which no amount of wealth can be weighed by an honorable mind he dealt a thrust at General Grant which will never be forgiven. Grant, in his third term letter, had dwelt in a complaining tone on his pecuniary sacrifices in accepting the Presidency; and when Wilson, with that sordid letter fresh in view, told the country that no amount of wealth should be weighed against so high an honor, the rebuke was so direct that he must have counted on making the President his deadly enemy, which was in- deed no sacrifice, for he had already made the President his enemy by his public expres- sions of regret that Grant had not relieved the party trom the heavy incubus of the third term. The republican party is not strong enough to defy President Grant and nominate a candidate in whose favor the federal patronage would mot be exerted. Ac- cording to present appearances Mr. Wilson is not a possible candidate, Mr. Blaine is equally certain to encounter the hostility of the President. He has adroitly but quietly exerted his influence against the third term. The anti-third term resolution in Pennsylvania, to which the President felt constrained to reply, and the similar repub- lican resolutions in other States were insti- gated by Blaine, and the whole influence of the administration will be exerted against him in the National Convention. He has nothing to expect from the army of office-holders, and their active hostility is an obstacle which he will not easily surmount. Even if he should get the nomination he could not be elected without the aid of the federal patronage, which he cannot expect after thwarting the third term aspirations of the President, According to present appearances the re- publican nomination lies between Washburne and Bristow. Washburne has strong pointe. He has not been mixed up with our recent controversies and has incurred no political enmities. His conduct as Minister to France in a trying period deserves and receives un- qualified praise. Nobody has ever questioned Grant's stanch fidelity to his friends, and he has no friend in the world to whom he is go much indebted for distinguished services as to Mr. Washburne. There is no republican can- didate in whose favor the federal patronage would be exerted with such hearty alacrity and vigor. Bristow would doubtless receive the President’s support if he should get the nomination; but he is too new a man to be strengly pressed for the nomination. Hv» has | no personal following outside of Kentucky, which is a democratic State, and it is not cus- tomary for political parties to nominate a Presidential candidate who cannot possibly carry his own State in the election. Accord- ing to present appearances Washburno’s chances are altogether the best for the repub- lican nomination. On the democratic side Tilden seems to contingencies. If the democratic inflation- ists should carry Ohio this year his chances will bo worthless, because in that event the inflationists will be strong enough either to of their houses and coaches, Let him give us their names, that they may be nailed up by the ears in featering infamy! control the Convention or to compel & compro- mise, and Tilden took such bold hard money ground in his annual Message that be can lead, but his prospects are subject to many | neither be an inflation candidate nor a com- promise candidate. But if the Ohio demo- crats should be badly beaten the Tilden Presi- dential stock will be at a premium, provided ho does not get at loggerheads with a demo- cratic Legislature next winter. It is esseutial to his success that the New York delegation support him, and if he should quarrel with the next Legislature his chances would be worth nothing, even if the inflationists lose Ohio next tall. But, subjeoe to these contin- gencies, Mr. Tilden's chances seem very good for the democratic nomination, especially when we consider the weakness of his com- petitors, Tharman is as good as dead since the Ohio blunder; Hendricks is in the same predicament since the inflation platform ot the Indiana democrats last year, and ne is, moreover, an object of a settled hostility with the Ohio democracy for defeating Pendle- ton in 1868. Bayard is, perhaps, the most popular candidate the democrats could nomi- nate; but he is as strenuous a hard money man as Tilden, and on a hard money plattorm Tilden’s chances are the best. With Wash- burne leading the canvass on one side and Til- den on the other it would be ‘‘a very pretty fight.” Gambetta on Dueiling. There is one man in France whom the ad- herents of Bonapartism desire ardently to getout of the way. That man ia Gambetta. They cannot talk him down nor write him down; hence their only hope of disposing of him is to fight him down. There is some- thing essentially Corsican in the Bonapartist party, and when arguments fail it can always rely upon the ready service of some trained swordsman to run an adversary through the body. Itis not a long while since one of these devoted bravos of imperialism struck M. Gambetta publicly, in the hope of forcing the leader of the republicans to fight a duel. With admirable good sense Gambetta con- tented himself with handing the blackguard over to the police, and a few months’ im- prisonment left him, no doubt, a more prudent if not s much wiser man. A new aspirant to the honor of assassinating M. Gambetta, under the forms of the duel, has appeared in the person of Granier de Oassagnac, the editor of the Bonapartist organ. This person is pleased to announce that he holds the leader of the republican party liable for certain articles, and thereupon chal- lenges him to deadly combat. M. Gambet- ta’s answer will commend itself to the ap- proval of intelligent men everywhere, He says that he has other work to do than to fight every nobody who may take it into his head to challenge him to combat. In the present state of French society it requires no little moral courage for a public man to refuse a challenge, and M. Gambetta deserves credit for having set an example that we hope other distin- guished Frenchmen will follow. There are, perhaps, occasions in which high-spirited men could find no other solution of their difficulties that would satisfy themselves than is offered by the semi-barbarous practice of duelling; but such occasions are, happily, rare. Nothing could be more ab- surd than for the leader of a great party in the nation to venture his life against that of some empty-headed but dexterous fencing master. A system which would encourage an absurdity cannot resist the march of modern ideas. ‘this challenge of M. Granier de Cas- sagnac and M. Gambetta's reply will goa long way toward discrediting that system of political duelling which is a blot on the civili- zation of France. The Sailing of the Pandora. The sailing of the Pandora on her voyage of Arctic discovery is the theme of a very in- teresting letterin the Heraup this morning. So quietly was the little vessel prepared tor her distant and perilous voyage that her pur- posed departure was almost secret up to the hour when she sailed, but the details furnished by our correspondent show that she was so thoroughly provided with everything neces- sary for the journey that the best results are to be anticipated from her explorations, Even her name is felicitously chosen when it is remembered that Lady Franklin bore a conspicuous part in her outfit, To this excel- lent lady Arctic discovery has indeed proved a Pandora’s box,’and this little vessel, the last she will assist in sending to the frozen polar seas, is symbolical of the hope that, with her, was always at the bottom. Her life, to the great regret of all of us, is drawing to its close, and it is s¢arcely possible she will live long enough to witness the return of the expedition ; but she could have no nobler monument to ber munificence and her devo- tion than that which will be afforded ber by-the perils and sufferings of this little band of venturesome spirits search- ing the far North for traces of her lost hus- band. In every way is the expedition worthy of her. Captain Young, the com- mander of the Pandora, has had much expe- rience in Arctic exploration, and there is some- thing like poetic justice in the fact that the cap- tain and at least one of the little crew was with McClintock in 1857, when the brave Sir John Franklin's fate was revealed to a waiting and sympathizing world. Esquimau Joe, who so narrowly escaped on the ice after the loss of the Polaris, has been induced to leave his home in Connecticut to act as interpreter for the exploring party, and the British Navy has contributed some ofits best and most faithful servants to the expedition. Few vessels have ever sailed more auspiciously on a voyage so fullof danger, and we can only hope that every effort of her commander and his crew may be crowned with success, and that our‘own cor- respondent, who is one of the party, may be the historiographer of an event whose rela- tion will prove beneficial to all the world. Prymovta Cnvrca has given Mr, Beecher a present of eighty thousand dollars to enable him to pay the expenses of his trial, This is a practical illustration of the devotion felt for its pastor by the church, Mr. Beecher will now beenabled to pay off the mortgage on his house that enabled Moulton to supply ‘grace, mercy and peace” to Theodore. | Ir 1s Now Announcep that Tennyson's drama of “Queen Mary” will be played in London. Mr. Irving, who has made @ world- wide fame as Hamlet, will perform the leading part in the dramé, assisted by Miss Bateman, the youngest daughter of the late Mr. Bate- man. A drama of Tennyson's will be the | most important theatrical event since the production of Bulwer’s ‘Richelieu.’ The Floods France. Tho news we print this morning from of the warm weather in their utter absence of ideas, They talk about tabor, education France is very sad. The despatches which | and freedom of religion—sentiments upom have come to us from our special correspond- enta from Paris, Toulouse, Bordeaux, by cable from time to time, have prepared us for this dismal narrative. But when we read the details of the calamity we seo that not one- half has been told. Tho misfortune of ca- lamities like this is that they can bo attri- buted to no mishap of administration, no dis- regard of plain and necossary duties, no over- sight or neglect. It is not like a pestilence. That comes slowly, and we may escape trom its deadly blight. It is not like a famine. That we can foresee, and the enterprise and humanity of favored nations can generally avert or alleviate its influence. It is not like war; for wat, with its trials, more terrible, we regret to to say, than any other visitation, has its compensations in the patriotic teeling which shrinks from no sacrifice, however exacting—devastation, rapine, even death itsel’—when in bebalf of fatherland. This disaster came like a thunderbolt, in a night, without warning and without remedy, sweeping all before it in its desolating sway. In the fine old words of the law books, it can only be called “the visitation of God.”” No part of France is more interesting to the student and the traveller than the valloy of the Garonne. Its history goes back to the time when the Roman arms were sweeping over the Continent and bringing the ancient dominions of Gaul within the limits of the gigantio empire. It was here that the Visi- goths made a desperate effort to found their rude and powerful dynasties. These plains are memorable from many campaigns—from those of Charlemagne, when he founded his empire, to those of Napoleon, who tought his last battle for the dominion of Europe before he was driven to Elba, It has a sad and proud memory to all who remember the struggles of the Albigensians for religious freedom—un- availing straggles against the supreme and widely-reaching power of Rome. In this country the beautiful language of Oc is spoken—the language of romance and song. France has no fields more fair, no valleys more inviting, no mountain ranges more im- posing and picturesque than the hills and plains of Garonne. And, as if to make the visitation more cruel, the country now suffer- ing so fearfully escaped from the exactions of the last war. Tho tide of invasion did not reach the Garonne, and we question if any of the less fortunate provinces of France—those which felt most cruelly the heehof the inva- der—were as sorely afflicted as those whose misfortunes now arrest the sympathy and at- tention of the civilized world. It seems that heavy rains fell in all parts of France, and that few parts of the country have escaped from more or less damage. For thirty-six hours the windows o! heaven were opened and torrents of rain fell upon the doomed valley. ‘Lhe water poured in sheets.” The water rose above the villages and practically submergedthem. In one vil- lage nearToulouse only three houses out of four hundred were left standing. The railways stopped their service, for the tracks were submerged and bridges carried away. In Toulouse alone twenty thousand persons were deprived of means of subsistence. One quarter of that city contained two hundred and fifteen bodies of drowned citizens, ‘‘and this but a fractional part of the death roll,” many people perishing in the houses which were swept away. In addition to the rains there was the melting of the snows on the Pyrenees and the Cervennes. Lands. were overflowed, fields deluged, towns and sub- urbs flooded. It comes in the time of harvest, and atter a harvest of unusual richness and promise. ‘The corn, the wine and tho oil’’ says one writer,’ the jair expanses of the finest wheat, the clustering and the trellised vines, the olive aud the mulberry trees, are the vic- tims of the Southern rivers’ riotous outbursts when the volume of water became uncontrol- able, while the banks were overleaped by the impatient torrent.’’ France has seen no such flood for twenty years, when the valley of the Seine suffered froma similar calamity and the Emperor Napoleon went into the country to remedy the distress, At that time the Em- peror, who was new to his throne and anxiou€ to win some surer title to popular favor than even a Russian war, went among the people— at a great personal sacrifice and not without danger—and distributed relief. It was u timely and grateful act, enhancing his popn- larity and remembered to his honor and ad- vantage long after more noisy achievements were forgotten. What Napoleon as Emperor did MacMahon as President is doing now. In a government as paternal as France, where the people, no matter their stress, look to Paris for aid and direction, the direct personal intervention of the chief of the state is always welcomed. So we have had the President promptly hurrying to the scene of the disaster and stirring to give succor. The Assembly at once offered a contribution to the aid of the wretched and unfortunate people. Other countries have passed in their contributions. England, always ready and generous in welldoing, has given large sums of money. The same may be said of Belgium, Holland and warm-hearted little Switzerland. In the presence of sorrow and distress so vast and widespread nationali- ties are forgotten, race and politics are forgotten, and we have the brotherhood of humanity, which is only a step toward that complete brotherhood which we trust some day to see all over Europe, While we mourn with France over her misfortunes we rejoice with her over the sympatby and kindness they have evoked, This is due to France, Whatever the faults of the people they have never looked on insilence or apathy when the cry of distress was heard. We regret that the benevolence of America does not appear in this noble record. The Ameri- cans are a generous people, and especially so to France. Now is the time to make this appear. We trust that our people will seize the unhapppy oppertanity and out of that abaa- dant and flowing charity, always a glory to the American name, send a subscription to the Garonne, testifying our sympathy with this untoward disaster and our desire to show the highest and most practical illustration of a friendship which, whenever invoked by us, has never failed to be responded to by France. Tur Repvpricans wv Wisconsty held a con- vention at Madison yesterday and pnssod some curious resolutions, showing the effects which no one has any question. They give 4 strange reading of Grant's third term let- tor—a reading not justified by the text or the President's intentions. The trouble with the Wisconsin republicans is that President Grant is the strongest man in the party, and they do not know what to do with him. Mr. Longfellow’s New Poem. A new poem by Longfellow is always an important event in our literature, but his “Morituri Salutamus,’’ which we print to-day from the advance sheets of Harper's Magazine, derives unusual interest from the anniversary which it commemorates. Vifty’years ago Mr. Longfellow graduated with the famous class of Bowdoin College, of which Nathaniel Haw- thorne, Josiah 8. Little, James W. Bradbury, John 3. C. Abbott, Jonathan Cilley, George B. Cheever, Professor Nathaniel Dunn and other distingaished men were members. Half of a century is gone, and the great poet, who has survived many of his ancient college com- panions, is called upon to celebrate the mem- ory of the past and the reunion of those who remain, It is not strange that he should ap- proach this task with relactance, and that a solemn tone ‘from the deep throat of sad Melpomene’’ should underlie the silvery music of his verse, The idea of the poem is simple and noble. “O Cwsar, we who are about to die salute you!” is the cry of pain which echoes throughout the linos, softened into serenity by philosophic resignation. In their old age the poet and his friends returned, like Ulysses and his companions, from long wanderings to the scenes of early youth, salute the groves and halls of academio toil. They salute the shades of their dear preceptors, as Dante in the “Inferno” met and bowed before the in- structor of his youth. They who are about to die salute those who but begin to live— the graduates who go out into the world from the class of 1875, They salute each other, these long separated comrades, who meet once more only to separate again forever. This conception is beautiful in its simplicity, and is presented with strength all the stronger for its tenderness and pathos. Poems such as this should not be judged with that severity which is given to those which are purely imaginative ; for they speak of those personal regrets and griefs to which reverence above all else is due. Nothing that Mr. Longfellow has written for years seems to us to have come more directly from his heart than this beautiful lament. There are passages in it which are unsurpassed in feel- ing by anything even in his own volumes, in which all passionate sorrows are transfigured into shapes of beauty. Yet in this poem the man sometimes interrupts the poet, as an actor, who is striving with bis own grief, utters imperfectly the alien woe of an im- aginary character. Mr. Longfellow sees him- self As one who straggies in a troubled dream To speak and cannot, to mysel! i seem, Upon such serious subjects as the closing of their own lives poets can neither speak freely nor yet be wholly silent, and it is the highest praise this poem could receive to say that in the pathetic strife between the man and the artist in ‘‘Morituri Salu- tamus”’ the artist has won the supremacy. As ‘there is no beauty without a ionch of sadness,’’ 60 is the profound sadness of this poem suffused with beauty, as a dying face with love. The sincerity of its expression, chastened by patience and manly reserve, will endear this poem to the countless hearts who cherish Mr. Longfellow as a guide in all that is noble and pure. It is more of a personal work than any- thing Mr. Longfellow has written; for gener- ally be has chosen to stand apart from his art, like a painter behind his picture, express- img in poetic forms passions and sorrows which appear to be his only as they are the property of all. But this majestic candor of the poet who has grown old in fame is very different from the morbid scorn with which Byron paraded his griefs before the common eye. It is the farewell of one to whom years have brought the philosophic mind, and who, foreseeing the inevitable parting from earth, exclaims to all its imperial grandeurs, ‘‘O. Cxsar, we who are about to die salute you!” It is a magmiticont regret, but the close is inspired with a nobler faith, and Mr. Longfellow has himself proved his phil- osopby by writing in his oldage a poem which would have been impossible to him in youth. And as the evening twilight fades away ‘The sky is filled with stars tovisible by day. We See Tuar Mr. Voorhees, of Indiana, is about to take the stump for rag money. Mr. Voorhees might make a great reputation by speaking in favor of corn husk money. We do not see why, since these sublime statesmen want “money,” that they should confine themselves to rags alone. Why not give usa “circulating medium” that everybody can use? Let it be corn husks in the West, oyster shells in Virginia and clam shells in New Jersey, cane stalks in the South, and so on, the cur. rency adjusting itself to “the wauta of the country.” Let Voorhees give us a powerful speech in favor of a corn husk currency, Let him arouse the people on that. If he will be a demagogue 1.t him be novel in his ideas, Your wornout demagogue, who ambles along in the old ruts like a bony nag ina brick-mak- ing machine, is a stupid creature. We want something new. Tur Brack Hiri. —It seems as if there is not as much gold in the Black Hills country as was anticipated by our impatient adventurers who are anxious to drive out the Indians from their reservations and grow rich in a month orso. Mr. Jenney, the geologist of the ex- ploring expedition, reports that the gold is thinly scattered, and that no one has ob- tained more than a few cents’ worth of gold dust after a few hours’ hard labor. Even the newsboys do better than that, and biacking boots on Broadway would seem to be @ more remunerative occupation than washing out gold in the gulches of the Black Hills, Our correspondence from this country will be found full of interest and value, as showing that the unexplored and coveted land is not such an El Dorado after all. Our people can do no better than remain at home. If they want gold they have only to gig for it here, and the return will be aa certain and much more pleasant in the finding than by a long, dangerous and ancertain trip to the Biack Hilla, The Death of Robert H, Ives. Tn the death of Robert H. Ives Rhode Island loses her most prominent and public. spirited citizen, and Brown University espe- cially will miss a most active patron. Since the death of che late John Carter Brown Mr. Ives was at the head of the famous house of Brown & Ives, the history of which extends tur back into the colonial epoch. Originally East India merchants, the house of Brown & Ives changed with the changes that have marked the business progress of New Eng- land, and tor many years they were the lead- ing manufacturers of their city and State. Politically neither Mr. Brown nor Mr, Ives participated actively; but they were al- ways a power in Rhode Island, and their wishes to a great extent controlled political action in their State. It was ogainat their power and influence that Senator Sprague made his remarkable speeches in the United States Senate six years ago. {n no other State is there so much of the one- man power in politics as in Rhode Island, the manufacturers of that State being to their operatives what the mediaval barons were to their vassals, For some years the rival houses of the Spragues’and of Brown & Ives divided the political influence of the State. The modifications wrought by business disaster om the one hand and by death on the other will not change the system of baronial rule in Rhode Island, but merely place the political power of the State in more numerous and more ambitious hands. The lords of Crans- ton and Lonsdale will be succeeded by other manufacturers not so well known, and the mill owner will continue to be in the future, even more than he was in the past, the politi- cal arbiter of the people. The independent voter was never much of a power in Bhode Island ; and now that death has made the way still more open for the aspiring manufacturer of that little State we may expect to find its peculiar social and political condition even more fully exemplified. Bnorner Raymonp, of Plymouth church, who seems to have a lively and voluble in- tellect, delivered a philippic against the news- papers last night for their course toward Mr. Beecher. We have no doubt the newspapers are very bad; but how could they be expected to have the blind devotion for Brother Beecher which so beautituily illuminates the soul of Brother Raymond? Tho newspapers did not write Brother Beecher's letters, They did not fabricate the testimony of Mrs. Moulton. They did not humble themselves before Theo- dore Tilton as before their God. They did not even wish they were dead. They did not place Brother Beecher on the ragged edge. They did not pray God to put it into Tilton's heart to forgive Brother Beecher. They did not ask Mrs, Tilton to write about “true inwardness,” nor teach her the meaning of ‘nest-hiding.” Bad as the newspapers aro there are some things they have not done. Wispom.—Frederick Douglass, the represen- tative negro of the country in many respects has been making a Fourth of July oration, in which he calls upon the negroes to assert their manhood, to be no longer mendicants and not to appeal constantly to the people as “a poor and helpless race,” and if they want a Moses they will find one in their own tribe. We cannot too highly commend the advice of Mr. Douglass. The negroes have been robbed by their pretended friends without stint. Mock philanthropists and scheming rascala have schemed and stolen in their name, No one denies the negro every right conceded to him under the laws, the right to live and work and be a good citizen. Butno race can be nursed into independence and self-support. The effort will only enervate it, The negro must succeed or fail through his own efforts, He no longer dreads slavery or disfranchise- ment, and we ae glad to see a negro as emi- nent and accomplished as Mr. Douglass taking this bold and manly ground. Oxz or THe Prisoners who escaped from Sing Sing by jumping upon a locomotive has been arrested. The story of his adventures forms an interesting romance. PERSONAL INTELLIGENCE. Congressman George W. Hendee, of Vermont, ta Staying at tne Filth Avenue Hotel. Professor D, Greene, of Troy, is among tie late arrivals at the Westminster Hotel, Senator J, Rodman West, of Loutsianga, arrived last evening at the Metropolitan Hotel, General James Longstreer, of Louis ana, ts re- siding temporariir at the Fiftn Avenue Hotel. Lieutenant Governor William Dorsheimer ar- rived at the Gilsey House yesterday, from his home in Buffalo, Mr. James F. Joy, President of the Michigan Central Railroad Company, is registered at the Windsor Hotel Congressman Winthrop W. Ketcham and Dis- trict Attorney H. B, Payne, of Wilkesbarre, Pa, are at the Homan House, State Senator Williar B, Woodin, of Anburn, and Assemblyman F, W. Voabdurgh, of Albany, Dave apartments at the Metropolitan Hotei, A telegram from Mexico Clty, under date of June 30, reports that J. Ciausen has been omonally recognized as consul of Germany at Tampico, The Halifax (N. 5.) O'Counell Centenary Oeie- bration Committee have invited Mr. Richard O'Gormon, Of this city, to deilver the oration on O'Connell. A press despatch, from New Urieans, announced yesterday the occurrence of the death of Mrs. Atocna, widow of th: late’ Judge Atochas, of thas city, This was entirely incorrect. The widow ot Judge Atocha is aow ia New York with her littie daughter 4nd bota in good health, have but recently recarned, with his mother, from the Judge’s funeral. ‘The oMcial report On the state of the crops in Russia, pubtisned by the Minister of the intertor at St. Petersburg, ts very favorable. [n the gov. ernments of Charzoq, Poltava, Touia and tne dis. trict on the coast of the Biack Sea the winter sowings are in very good condition, and equally antsare received from Bessarabia, in ents of Poltava and Ekaterinosiay, ya Were at first In a Vory unsatisfac they have completely recovered under the | + Similar ac. counts have been received from the Don ana Volga districts. Out of 296,604 young men convoked individually for conscription In France 9,875 did not appear; 25,659 were recogoized as unfit for any service, active or Guxiliary, in the army; 18,706 were ex. empted as only sons, or the eldest or sole grana- sous, OF eldest sons ci Widows or wives whose hus- bands have been declared lezaily avsen tne father blind or septuagenarian ; 258 rot two brothers sammoned to same drawing; 16,983 brothers of soldiers } ve nervioe: 6,651 broshors of soldiers deua, disabled or pensionea for wounds of infirmaties contractea under the flag. Postponement for farther examination was pronounced in 21,365 cases, for insnMcient stat. ure 7,024 and for weakness of constitution 14,535: 22,387 were already under the fag.